How to Use analytics in a Sentence

analytics

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  • The big-money jobs these days are in data analytics; hard numbers make vaccines and launch rockets.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Chu has been named manager of game strategy and analytics.
    — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2021
  • His use of in-depth analytics was normal in baseball, but viewed with suspicion by many traditional football people.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But the spread of the codes has also let businesses integrate more tools for tracking, targeting and analytics, raising red flags for privacy experts.
    — Erin Woo New York Times, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • But Walsh, an earnest and affable person with a background in data analytics, believed his models had the potential to come closer than most to discerning its shape.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • What do the analytics say about the U.S. style and chances?
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The draft charts and analytics like the deal because of all the extra picks.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Facing fourth-and-goal at the 2, analytics — and maybe the tone of the game — dictated Utah go for it.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Was the idea of building this insights and analytics team always part of the pitch to you?
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Most of Garmin's in-depth analytics and metrics haven't made their way to the Vívosmart 5.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The advanced analytics on FootballOutsiders.com speak to some of the issues from this season.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The site's analytics give Arizona an 11.3% chance to get the victory.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • What has changed is the data and the analytics that have become a catalyst to better take care of the needs of our people.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The analytics supported it, and Dan Campbell said the look was there.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Staff mined Google’s analytics tools for ways to find new viewers.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Parrish said the Ducks don’t pay attention to the analytics and big picture amid the season.
    — oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The thinking, according to Cooper, is simple: In the age of analytics, field goals just don’t mean as much from that close.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The respected analytics service ranks Auburn slightly ahead of LSU head-to-head in all three phases of the game.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The moves were made to ignite a greater push to integrate new-age analytics into the team's makeup.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • On the other hand, downloads of the app have soared, according to data.ai, an analytics platform.
    — Solcyre Burga, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Paul Hoynes did some work with analytics demonstrating Civale’s stuff is simply not the same.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 May 2022
  • The Saints are a disappointing 4-9, and coach Dennis Allen has never once gone for it on fourth down this season when the analytics tell him to.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Whittingham is a believer in analytics, going as far as to say that in the past.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Tigers pitching coach Chris Fetter watched from behind the plate, reading the analytics off an iPad.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2022
  • His analytics tell him that a vast new pile of minerals on a dead planet is still a vast pile of minerals.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Fuld learned the game as a player and refined that knowledge working in the Phillies’ analytics department.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The trade value for running backs is low, because analytics hates them.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Skills gaps are likely to grow as analytics tools become more potent — and opaque.
    — Michael Schoen, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Right, so the big problem with Theranos was their analytics.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Wonder if the Sox analytics army can quantify the damage done by the club’s organizational chaos?
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023

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